cushman & wakefield, inc. v. illinois national insurance company et al complaint

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 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD, INC., Plaintiff, v. ILLINOIS NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, and RLI INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendants. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Civil Action No.: COMPLAINT JURY TRIAL DEMANDED Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (“C&W”), by and through its undersigned attorneys, and for its Complaint against Illinois National Insurance Company (“Illinois National”), ACE American Insurance Company (“ACE”), Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (“Liberty Mutual”), and RLI Insurance Company (“RLI”) (collectively, “Defendants”) alleges as follows: I. INTRODUCTION 1. This insurance coverage action seeks a declaration of coverage against C&W’s insurers with respect to underlying matters brought against C&W which fall precisely within the claims-made coverage at issue. It also seeks damages against two of those insurers, defendants Illinois National and ACE, who have made the conscious and wrongful decision to deter C&W’s claims for coverage by making it a s expensive and complex a s possible for C&W to pursue those claims. 2. C&W is the world’s largest privately-held commercial real estate services firm, with more than 16,000 professionals operating from approximately 250 offices in 60 countries Case: 1:14-cv-08725 Document #: 1 Filed: 11/03/14 Page 1 of 33 PageID #:1

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